Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — PROF. YEOMAN IS HONORED [ARTICLE]

PROF. YEOMAN IS HONORED

RENSSELAER BOY TO TEACH HIGHWAY ENGINEERING AT PURDUE. -—■ - • Prof. Ray C. Yeoman, son of A. K. Yeoman, of this city, at present dean of the engineering department of Valparaiso University, has tendered his resignation to that institution to take effect at the close of their present term, December 1, in order that he might accept a position in the civil engineering -department at Purdue University. He will succeed Capt. G. E. Martin as assistant professor of highway engineering. Prof. Yeoman is a Purdue man, having graduated from the civil engineering school in 1907 and having secured his degree in 1909. He took his position at Valparaiso university in the year 1909, and became a professor of civil engineering there. On the death of Dean Bogarte, of that institution, he became dean of the engineering department. During his regime there the engineering work has grown from a six months’ course in civil engineering and a three year course in architectural engineering. His position at Purdue will require co-operation with the state highway commission, Prof. Yeoman caring for the extension work of the university in regard to good roads in Indiana. Prof. Yeoman will move his family to Lafayette the first week in December.

Prof. Yeoman is a graduate of Rensselaer high school and was one of the most brilliant scholars ever turned out by the local institution. He was also an athlete of considerable ability and took keen interest in athletic work in the days when Rensselaer athletes were considered as the best in the state. His Rensselaer friends will be pleased at the selection of the Purdue board and feel that that institution has added a most valuable man to their faculty.